Travel sickness. [Part 10]

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At first, when me and (Val is recik, he stopped playing a Dreanei Paladin and made a human paladin!) Val discovered Recruit - a - Friend, we thought that the person who recruited could grant levels, After buying the expansions and game we realised this wasn't the case. But the x3 Exp was fun. I heard warriors were fun, so I picked a warrior and Val picked a mage and we just started leveling.

It was way faster than normal leveling, we got to 20 within a few hours. We agreed that we would try level to 80 together, but it didn't work out so well. In fact, me and my friends tried several times to make a "leveling alt group" but we all had different play times, sometimes one person wouldn't want to level, others someone would want to level on their own.

This time it actually worked out, mostly. Once we hit 60, which was in less than a week real time, Val wanted to take a break, go rp and such. I really started enjoying warriors so I kept going. I don't remember Outland but it was pretty short. Entered it at 60 left at 68. Triple Exp was gone but it didn't slow me down that much. Once I hit 68 it was straight to Northrend. That's when it started to slow down, It was a change from going to anywhere between 3-20 levels a day to just 1-2. I kept going and soon enough I was 80. I didn't put much effort in gearing up to begin with, I disliked heroics. They seemed very repetitive. While I was still in blues, I applied to Castellum as a tank. They were pretty stuffed on tanks and I didn't have an off-spec.

I don't know why but I felt I needed to change server, meet new people, different play styles, so I looked on the Alliance recruitment page. After searching through pages I found one guild on the server Nagrand that seemed to have everything I was looking for. Starting Ulduar, raid days were nice, as well as their times. I made an alt and saw that there was usually members online so I made an application. I was accepted and I transferred over. It was pretty weird, it felt different. I whispered an Officer and I got invited, I was greeted and felt at home. They went back to naxx a few times to help me gear up and soon I was ready for action. Tanking was fun but it was very stressful. I had to concentrate non-stop. But it was good fun downing bosses.

I found myself logging on Chexer during the daytime to talk to my friends and then Back on Laochran at night. (My warrior)Eventually raids were called off to a lack of members but nobody seemed to care. I understand if people have to go somewhere they can be excused, but people were making no effort, after a few weeks I got fed up. They didn't even notice me. The "Trial" rank was supposed to be for at max a week. After months/weeks they never changed it.

I left the guild but I didn't know any other guilds on the realm... I logged on my warrior less and less until I stopped playing all together. I found a raid group on my rogue, they already had 3 rogues but they trialed my anyway. I was second on the dps charts to my surprise in my first raid. After another trial I was accepted. It was perfect, I didn't need to be in a guild and I could still raid. I made myself a bank guild and just filled it up. The progression was a bit behind of the Nagrand guild. The raid group "Optima" got Flame Lev and XT down and that's about it, after days of wiping constantly on Kologarn we finally got him down. But when we tried it again the next week we couldn't down him. I noticed that people in the raid didn't have a clue what they were doing. The healers were decently geared but they weren't very skilled. The tanks stacked stamina so they were getting hit hard.

After more weeks of wiping on Kologarn I told them that I had a tank on another realm. I transfered him over and had to change his name to something. I usually get my inspiration for names from my surroundings. I look around my desk for something I could use. Mouse? Ipod..? Bottle..? I lifted up my keyboard and there was a little piece of wood hidden underneath it.

Matchstick.
Next it will be about Optima screwing me over.

[I done all of my leveling on one computer so il post some pictures of it once I get home. For now il just add a few random onces!]

Go go RP-GG [Part 7]

Ok, I bought Wrath of the Lich King the first day it came out, It was the collector's edition. Not sure why I bought the collector one, the box just looked amazing! I put the discs in and it started installing. I rooted through the box to find other goodies. There were some cards for the Tcg but I ignored them. There was a special card that had a code on it. I looked up on the Internet and it was a code to buy cookies for a pet. Cool! Also, while I was online I upgraded my account to support WotLK.

I dusted off my XBOX and slotted in the DVD in the box. It was a behind the scenes for the game. Pretty cool but all I could think about was the game. By this time Drake told me about skype and I bought a mic. We could talk endlessly, so I called him up and he also bought the collectors edition.

Mine installed first and I logged into the game. I had no idea what i wanted to do first. Make a DK or start leveling. I thought there would be plenty of time for a Death Knight so I popped on Notar. It was pretty cool. I went to the newly opened docks in Stormwind, and popped on the Northrend boat. (I thought this was the only boat to Northrend, I never noticed the one from Minethil.)

I flew through the first 2 levels and wanted a change of plan. I searched for a portal to Dalaran and made it my HS. It was a nice city, smaller than Shattrath but OK. It had a sewer but no Auction house. I wondered the Alliance area and found a portal to Wintergrasp. I didn't know what it was but I hopped in anyway. After it loaded i checked the map and I was still in Northrend. It looked like some sort of battle area, since the battle wasn't on, I couldn't use any of the Vehicles so I picked up an RP-GG and tested it out. After this mess about i checked the /who and there was only one person at level 75. That night I was really excited about waking up, it seems the only reason I went to sleep was so I could wake back up.

The game was really fun and I loved the new dungeons, it seemed that I could start fresh at level 80. That wasn't the case. Next Il go through my last few levels and some changes at level 80.

A Legend was born...Of some sort. [Part 4]

One of the main reasons we had upgraded to a faster Internet connection, was specifically for the game, but since it took around 6 months to sort out, I ended up not even using it. Right before the start of the summer holidays, my parents announced that they would be having a divorce. I had known for a while but hearing still upset me. My mam moved out to a house that was a 5 minute drive from my old house. (I think they wanted me to feel close to home) It was fine by me.

After this, I needed something to do. I needed something to keep my from wandering. I bought a 3d jigsaw, but i got bored fast. I get Black & white and Devil may cry for the PC but my computer wasn't strong enough to play DMC. Before school ended, one of my new friends mentioned he played a game called Guild Wars. I called him up and he gave me the Details. So me, Drake and Lee (Not their real names, but their toons..Well actually "Lee" Named his toon after himself...er) bought nightfall and it was actually pretty fun.

Lee stopped after a few days but me and Drake keep on going. Another guy from my class "Vylin" started playing. This was OK for the first few months but after a while, i started thinking about Warcraft. I decided to give it a go, somehow I had time left on it, fired it up, but I forgot which server i was on. I made a new toon on Bronze Dragonflight, thinking it was Darkmoon Faire. I got a mage to level 10. I asked Ron and fionnach if they wanted to start playing again. They said no, but they also told me what server they were on.

Over the summer they go to level 40+. I started playing when school started again and it was pretty fun too. I was as bad a noob can get, but I thought I was amazing :P. As a level 37 mage, i started to get very annoyed. I wasn't very skilled so I i was getting hit, and as a clothie, I was getting 1 shot. So I decided to reroll a human rogue. (I forgot to mention that once I restarted playing, I didn't want to play my hunter. so i made a mage.)

My gnome mage's name was reported several times (As Darkmoon Faire is a RP server) I can't remember his first name but they went like this. "Name 1" " gnomedepo" "Pvpmage" "FireMage" After that I put a lot of effort into thinking what name I should pick. The song Maniac on the dance floor, had just come on the radio. It got me thinking... and Arcaniac was born.

Arcaniac might have been an old skool troll, if i knew what that was. His hobbies were, begging, spamming trade, insulting people. Dunno why though!

Anyway, I was messing around which characters i should make...Paladin seems good. Might even go horde... Then i picked a rogue. And what was his name? The only thing i could think of.

Not-Arcaniac!

(I would like to point out that Drake was playing guildwars long before he mentioned it to me, we has a respected player on it. Also, my story makes it seem that I roleld a rogue before Drake, this is not true. He started playing while I was on my mage, shortly after i made a rogue. HAPPY NOW DRAKE? :D)

Broad band, Finally! [Part 3]

Righto, where was I..

Oh yeah, I finally could play the game. And at first i didn't know what to think. It wasn't as good as I expected but i couldn't stop playing. It was addicting, even during the lower levels.

I got to level 4 before I had to leave Ron's house, it was...fun I guess.

When i got home i forgot for a moment that, yet again, I couldn't play.

Every so often ron would invite me over but each time I could only play less and less. Eventually we got Broadband, well sort of. We were supposed to get broadband but the person who installed it made a rats arse of it. When I tried to use it, nothing happened. after caling the company, they insisted that I Broke it somehow. By this time i was very frustrated. Eventually i got over it and started despising the game.

I moved on with my life, the first expansion came out "The Burning Crusade" but i still felt no need to play, even though my broadband was fixed. (Turns out it wasn't my fault, but they still charged us something like €100 for making them come out to fix their mess)

That was untill, i started Secondary school. (Not sure what people call it in the Uk or US. High school? )

Gonna watch a movie now, will update tomorrow! Good Night!